Bee Starvation

[newbie99]

Hi I have some bee started to nest in the brick air vent. I have sealed the hole now. But wonder how long I should leave to ensure all the bee is starved?

[woofgang]

don't do that, the bees won't hurt yo and are in enough trouble with disease without being killed off, unblock the hole, live and let live.

[RATTER15]

That really wasn't a clever thing to do, do you think the bees will just starve or do you think the may now find another vent, possible one that comes into the house, a very risky thing to do in my opinion!

[Daffy6543]

Call your local beekeeper out, phone number can usually be obtained from the council in your area. Most will remove the hive/swarm for free, some charge a small fee.

[Hopkirk]

They won't be nesting in the brick air vent, they will be somewhere in the building, but using the vent as an entrance.

If you block it, they will just find another way in and out.

[ferlew]

Have you any idea of the benefits bees bring us?
We NEED bees for our survival.

[jomifl]

If bees are nesting in a cavity wall then a beekeeper won't be able to remove them as they need to capture the queen. Usually they just kill the lot if they can locate the nest. I would get rid of them (despite liking them and having worked with a bee keeper). The consequences of the honeycombe melting in hot weather and releasing gallons of honey somewhere inside your house is not an enviable prospect.

[Jeza]

Years ago we had honey bees nesting in our shed. I called Renokill who in turn called a local bee keeper. Bees gone cost us nothing.

[buildersmate]

Very likely to be masonry bees. Do no harm and a colony is only a hundred or so. Had some in a redundant air brick hole a couple of years back.

[Mosaic]

Poor little bees.

[catswhiskas]

How cruel, can you be.

[EcclesCake]

As Buildersmate has said they are most probably masonry bees.

If they are beekeepers will not be interested and there is no need to worry about a flood of honey either.

I really wish people would stop killing bees :-(

[kvalidir]

Don't do that, unseal their hole and let them out before they find another way out probably into your house. They wont hurt you, we had them in our poolhouse last year, just leave them alone :(

[EcclesCake]

Not as far as I'm aware Colin.

[EcclesCake]

Ha ha! I went off to check I was right and got consumed by Google. Tanks for confirming.

I think the only people justified in wilfully disrupting a bee habitat are those who have a proven allergy and even then it is quite easy to avoid in many cases.